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Elite Deviance

ISBN: 9780205276431 | 0205276431
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 6/1/1998

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SummaryTable of Contents
The book traces the causes of elite deviance to the structure of power and wealth in the United States, including both criminal and non-criminal elite acts that cause great harm. The book is unique in its scope, covering not only corporate crime and political corruption in historical and contemporary context, but the relationship between the two as well. The author systematically examines the nation's most serious scandals, including the JFK assassination, Watergate, Iran-Contra, the Savings and Loan scandal, crimes of the Bush administration, scandals of the Clinton Administration, the Waco raid, and others.
Prefacexiii
1 The Nature of Elite Deviance
1(49)
Scandal-Plagued America
1(12)
... MORE
Scandals within the Economic Sphere
9(4)
A Theory of Elite Deviance
13(22)
The U.S. Social Structure: The Power Elite
13(7)
Economy-State Linkages and the Functions of Government
20(10)
The Benefits That Elites Seek from the State
30(2)
The Higher Immorality and Links between Various Kinds of Crime
32(3)
The Classification of Elite Deviance
35(5)
Acts of Economic Domination
38(1)
Crimes of Government and Governmental Control
39(1)
Elite Deviance as Denial of Basic Human Rights
39(1)
The Conditions Leading to Elite Deviance
40(1)
The Consequences of Elite Deviance
41(1)
Conclusion
42(1)
Critical Thinking Exercise 1.1
43(1)
Endnotes
43(7)
2 Elite Deviance and the Higher Immorality
50(47)
The Nature of the Higher Immorality
50(1)
Case Study: The Savings and Loan Scandal
51(7)
The Higher Immorality and the Political Economy
58(17)
Corporate Compensation: Salaries, Taxes, and Perks
58(4)
Welfare for the Well-Off: Tax Breaks
62(2)
Misappropriated Charity: Foundations
64(1)
Royalties for the Rich: Subsidies
65(4)
The Creation of Crisis
69(4)
Antitrust Laws
73(2)
The Higher Immorality and Corporate Crime
75(4)
Penalties: The Double Standard
77(1)
Public Awareness
78(1)
Organized Crime and the Business Elite
79(9)
Organized Crime and Repression
80(2)
Organized Crime and Profits
82(4)
Organized Crime and the Political Elite
86(2)
Conclusion
88(2)
Critical Thinking Exercise 2-1
90(1)
Endnotes
90(7)
3 Corporate Deviance: Monopoly, Manipulation, and Fraud
97(30)
The Costs of Monopolies
98(7)
The Corporate Frankenstein
99(4)
Case Study: The Automobile Industry
103(2)
Price Fixing
105(5)
Case Study: The Electrical Conspiracy
108(2)
Price Gouging
110(5)
Taking Advantage of the Disadvantaged
111(1)
Taking Advantage of Unusual Events
112(1)
Extraordinary Profits through Deception
113(2)
Deceptive Advertising
115(4)
Fraud
119(2)
Conclusion
121(1)
Critical Thinking Exercise 3-1
122(1)
Endnotes
122(5)
4 Corporate Deviance: Human Jeopardy
127(40)
Individual Jeopardy
127(22)
Unsafe Products
127(5)
Dangerous Nutrition
132(8)
The Tobacco Industry
140(3)
Dangerous Working Conditions
143(6)
Collective Jeopardy
149(11)
Wasting Resources
149(4)
Polluting the Environment
153(7)
Conclusion
160(1)
Critical Thinking Exercise 4-1
161(1)
Endnotes
161(6)
5 National Defense, Multinational Corporations, and Human Rights
167(39)
The Military-Industrial Complex
169(14)
The Defense Establishment and Its Origins
169(3)
Defense Contract Practices
172(7)
The Consequences of Defense Policies
179(2)
The Fall of the Soviet Union and the New Global Economy
181(2)
Deviance and Multinational Corporations
183(5)
Government Policy
186(1)
Dumping Toxic Waste
187(1)
Human Rights, Multinationals, and U.S. Foreign Policy
188(12)
Iran
192(2)
Latin America
194(3)
Chile
197(1)
Assessing U.S. Support
197(3)
Conclusion
200(1)
Critical Thinking Exercise 5-1
200(1)
Endnotes
201(5)
6 Political Corruption: Continuity and Change
206(35)
Money and Politics
206(20)
Purchasing Goods and Services
207(2)
Public Funds
209(1)
Public Property
209(1)
Tax Assessment and Collection
210(1)
Regulation of Commercial Activities
211(1)
Zoning and Land Use
212(1)
The Legislative Process
213(4)
Law Enforcement
217(4)
The Organization of Power
221(5)
Corruption and Power
226(10)
The Powerful Controlling the Powerless
226(5)
Election Fraud
231(1)
Unfair Campaign Conduct
232(3)
Money in Elections
235(1)
Conclusion
236(1)
Critical Thinking Exercise 6-1
237(1)
Endnotes
238(3)
7 Political Deviance
241(31)
Domestic Political Deviance
241(18)
Secrecy, Lying, and Deception
241(4)
Abuse of Power by Government Agencies
245(4)
Political Prisoners
249(4)
Official Violence
253(6)
International Crimes
259(5)
U.S. Intervention in the Domestic Affairs of Other Nations
259(1)
CIA/FBI Involvement in Domestic Murder Plots
260(1)
War Crimes
261(3)
Conclusion
264(1)
Critical Thinking Exercise 7-1
265(1)
Endnotes
266(6)
8 Understanding Elite Deviance
272(33)
Why Elite Deviance?
272(8)
Elite Deviance and the Sociological Imagination: A Paradigm for Analysis
273(1)
Elite Deviance and American Values: The American Dream
274(2)
Social Structure: The Dominance of Elite Institutions
276(4)
The Characteristics of Bureaucratic Structures
280(4)
Centralization of Authority
280(1)
Specialized Vocabularies and Ideologies
281(3)
Image Construction and Inauthenticity
284(4)
Front Activities
284(2)
Elite Deviance and "Individual" Characteristics
286(2)
Organizational Conditions and the Production of Deviant Personalities
288(2)
Links between Elite Deviance and Nonelite Deviance
290(2)
Tangible Links
291(1)
Symbolic Links
291(1)
Elite Deviance and Victimization
292(3)
Constructionist and Objectivist Positions on Elite Deviance
295(3)
Conclusion
298(2)
Critical Thinking Exercise 8-1
300(1)
Endnotes
301(4)
9 The Scandalization of America: The Higher Immorality in an Era of Greed
305(24)
Watergate
309(2)
Iran-Contra
311(6)
Early Involvement with Iran
312(1)
Diverting Funds to the Contras
313(1)
The Scandal: Contragate
314(1)
The Nugan-Hand Bank Affair
314(1)
The Iran-Contra Conspiracy-"Operation Polecat"
315(1)
Connections and Conspiracies
315(2)
Contragate and the Changing Nature of American Power and Corruption
317(1)
The Characteristics of Contemporary Scandal
318(4)
The Study of Elite Deviance
322(1)
Conclusion
323(2)
Critical Thinking Exercise 9-1
325(1)
Endnotes
325(4)
Epilogue: Economic Democracy: A Proposal to Transform Society329(28)
Basic Assumptions330(2)
General Principles332(3)
The Planks of a Social-Democratic Platform335(6)
Implementing Economic Democracy341(3)
Elite Deviance and Economic Democracy344(7)
Publications351(1)
Readings351(1)
Organizations352(2)
Endnotes354(3)
Name Index357(14)
Subject Index371

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